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Flippers Arcade in Grandy, NC has announced that they are going to have a Spring tournament on April 25, 2015. The only available details right now are that they will have an A division and a B division for less experienced players. Flippers is hoping to be included in next years PAPA Circuit. In order to do that, they need at least forty people to attend the tournament this year.

Flippers does a great job running their tournaments and is an amazing arcade. They have almost all, if not all, the modern Stern machines as well as A and B list Bally/Williams titles. The machines are all in excellent condition and play very well.

This is an IFPA sanctioned event which will award WPPR points as well as North Carolina State points. There will be cash prizes and trophies awarded.

River City Flippers was proud to secure 5th, 7th, 10th, 12th, 13th and 16th places. River City Flippers can also claim that Scott was one of the only people to beat Austin in a game. Austin really sliced through the competition with some incredible playing.

Kevin Stone hosts the Pinholics Quarterly tournaments and has a great basement arcade setup. The machines in the lineup included – Paragon, Mata Hari, Meteor, Harlem Globetrotters, Stars, Lord of the Rings, Metallica, Jackbot, AC/DC, Tron and No Fear. The tournament bracket was run on the challonge.com website. Many of the state tournaments were listed on challonge so we were able to follow the progress across the country including the River City Flippers members who qualified and played in North Carolina.

The North Carolina State Championship was held in the amazing Flippers arcade. River City Flippers had two members playing in the North Carolina field. Malik came in fourth and Kevin came in tenth.

We are proud to have eight members of our twenty man league in state championship contention.

We are hoping to have more local tournaments this year and we are planning to bring the Virginia State Championship to Richmond in 2015.

Today is the day for the IFPA State Championships. River City Flippers has players in Northern Virginia for the Virginia Championships and at Flippers for the North Carolina championships. More details to follow. Updates on Facebook.com/rvapinball and on twitter @rvapinball and on Instagram @richmondpinball.